Who to some brutish lust submit,
And seek therein your happiness,
The ancient sin ye still repeat,
The creature for your God confess,
Prostrate before the idol fall,
Vile worshippers of sordid vice,
Your goods, your health, your time, your all,
Your souls to Self ye sacrifice.
Who to some brutish lust submit
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced &c.’—[Acts 7,] v. 41.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 213.
Publishing: Public Domain